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Planelogia, a succinct and seasonable discourse of the occasions, causes, nature, rise, growth, and…
Planelogia, a succinct and seasonable discourse of the occasions, causes, nature, rise, growth, and remedies of mental errors written some months since, and now made public, both for the healing and prevention of the sins and calamities which have broken in this way upon the churches of Christ, to the great scandal of religion, hardening of the wicked, and obstruction of Reformation : whereunto are subjoined by way of appendix : I. Vindiciarum vindex, being a succinct, but full answer to Mr. Philip Cary's weak and impertinent exceptions to my Vindiciæ legis & fæderis, II. a synopsis of ancient and modern Antinomian errors, with scriptural arguments and reasons against them, III. a sermon composed for the preventing and healing of rents and divisions in the churches of Christ / by John Flavell ... ; with an epistle by several divines, relating to Dr. Crisp's works.Planelogia, a succinct and seasonable discourse of the occasions, causes, nature, rise, growth, and remedies of mental errors written some months since, and now made publick, both for the healing and prevention of the sins and calamities which have broken in this way upon the churches of Christ, to the great scandal of religion, hardening of the wicked, and obstruction of Reformation : whereunto are subjoined by way of appendix : I. Vindiciarum vindex, being a succinct, but full answer to Mr. Philip Cary's weak and impertinent exceptions to my Vindiciæ legis & fæderis, II. a synopsis of ancient and modern Antinomian errors, with scriptural arguments and reasons against them, III. a sermon composed for the preventing and healing of rents and divisions in the churches of Christ / by John Flavell ... ; with an epistle by several divines, relating to Dr. Crisp's works.
London: printed by R. Roberts for Tho. Cockerill, 1691
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I could tell you from what you say, p. 76. of your Reply, That God doth indeed in the Covenant of Works make over himself to Sinners, to be their God in a way of special Interest; but it being upon such hard terms, that it is utterly impossible that way to attain unto life, &c. I could justly have told you, That these Passages of yours, drop pure nonsense upon the Reader's Understanding: as if Salvation were impossible to be attained by the same Covenant wherein God becomes our God, and makes over himself by way of special interest, to us.
I could tell you from what you say, p. 76. of your Reply, That God doth indeed in the Covenant of Works make over himself to Sinners, to be their God in a way of special Interest; but it being upon such hard terms, that it is utterly impossible that way to attain unto life, &c. I could justly have told you, That these Passages of yours, drop pure nonsense upon the Reader's Understanding: as if Salvation were impossible to be attain'd by the same Covenant wherein God becomes our God, and makes over himself by way of special interest, to us.
Had I had an itch to expose the Burlesque and ridiculous Stuff, which lies obvious enough in your Book; I should then have told your Reader, That according to your Doctrine, how opposite and inconsistent soever the two Covenants of Works and Grace be, yet the same Subjects, viz. Believers, may at once, not only stand under them both, ⟨p. 302⟩but that the same common Seal, viz. Circumcision, equally ratifies and confirms them both; for you allow in your Call, p. 205. That it sealed the Covenant of Grace to believing Abraham, and yet was a Seal of the Covenant of Works, yea the very condition of that Covenant, as you frequently affirm it to be. Vide, p. 81. of your Reply, and Passim.